babalawo
Naija
Etymology
from:Yoruba
Pronunciation
- bàbàláwó
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2803
- Frequency in raw corpus: 5
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 11138
Definition
Noun
babalawo: Person wey dey do juju for people.
- E go meet babalawo make e give am juju. — (He/she went to meet an oraclist for charms. (Egbokhare) )
- If I see christian, if I see babalawo, I go follow am word. — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__141, If I see a Christain, if I see a Babalawo, I will talk to them.)
- Some of di victims say dem first cari dem go babalawo shrine to swear say dem no go tell police or anybodi wetin dey happen. (bbc__91257, — Some of the victims said that they took them first to an oraclist's shrine to take an oath that they won't tell the police or anyone else about the incident.)
Related Forms
Juju man , jazz , shrine , charm , ayelala otumokpo
Synonyms
- Juju man , native doctor , dibia ,
Antonyms
Translations
- English: an oraclist